Volume 2, page 53. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior scene in a tavern, at left a woman rasies a large tankard to her lips, the man sitting near her with his hand around her waist, another customer sitting beside them encourages her to take a drink, a cigar(?) in his hand, behind a woman bends down to tend to the fire, across the room at right a patron sits reading from a newspaper, a smartly dressed man with a lantern(?) in hand standing beside him, another in labourers clothes leans on the back of his chair at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: verse: No more the farmer's news, the barbers tale, no more, the woodman's ballad shall prevail, no more the smith his duskey brow shall clear, relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; the host himself, no longer shall be found, carefull to see the mantling bliss go round; nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, shall kiss the cup, and pass it to the rest. Goldsmith., Illustration to Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The deserted village'., and Mounted on page 53 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published April 7th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Newspapers
